Fred Grossinger
Publicity Photo of Fred Grossinger
Born	( 1936-01-01 ) January 1, 1936 Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	November 21, 1995 (1995-11-21) (aged 59) Los Angeles , California, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Other names	Fred Holliday
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1958?1995
Spouses	Judy Kapler Nancy King
Children	1 daughter

Fred Grossinger (January 1, 1936 ? November 21, 1995), better known as Fred Holliday , was an American stage, film, and television actor. ^[1] He starred in more than one thousand television commercials from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

Career [ edit ]

From the late 1950s to the mid 1990s, Holliday also made guest appearances on more than one hundred and fifty television shows, including Gunsmoke , Ben Casey , Gomer Pyle: USMC , Dragnet , That Girl , The Mod Squad , Nanny and the Professor , Dan August , Ironside , Lassie , Mission:Impossible , Adam-12 , The F.B.I. , McCloud , Columbo , Eight is Enough , Lou Grant , The Love Boat , Galactica 1980 , The Facts of Life , Falcon Crest , Dynasty , Gimme a Break! , Riptide , Matlock , Knots Landing , Jake and the Fatman and Empty Nest . ^[2] He was one of the Mighty Carson Art Players on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for twelve years, ^[3] performed in the daytime dramas as Ron Wyche in Days of Our Lives , ^[4] as the manager at the Capwell Hotel in Santa Barbara , ^[5] in nighttime dramas such as John Atherton in Dallas ^[6] and was host of a short-lived daytime show, The Girl in My Life , on ABC between 1973 and 1974. ^[7]

His movie credits include A Patch of Blue (1965), Airport (1970), Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), First Family (1980), Edge of the Axe (1988), and Lobster Man from Mars (1989). ^[4] Holliday appeared in more than fifty Broadway and regional theater productions. ^[2]

Professionally, Holliday served on the local board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of AFTRA for ten years, as well as serving on the national board of AFTRA. ^[8]

He was also active in the Screen Actors Guild . ^[9]

Holliday was married to Judy Kapler. He had one daughter, Debra Jeanne (Grossinger) Rouse, from his first marriage to Nancy King. ^[2]

Death [ edit ]

Holliday died in Los Angeles on November 21, 1995, at the age of 59. The cause of death was a heart attack . ^[2]

Filmography [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Fred Grossinger at IMDb
• Fred Grossinger at Find a Grave
• Fred Holliday on the Johnny Carson Show Jpeg formatted image file, poor quality